A now-deleted tweet Thursday morning by McDonald’s official Twitter handle has caused a stir on social media.

The tweet, which was briefly pinned to the top of McDonald’s account before being deleted, was directed at the Twitter account of President Trump, reading “@realdonaldtrump you are actually a disgusting excuse for a President and we would love to have @BarackObama back, also you have tiny hands.”

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McDonald's tweeted that Twitter notified the company that the account had been compromised. McDonald's said it deleted the tweet, secured the account and is now investigating what happened.

Twitter notified us that our account was compromised. We deleted the tweet, secured our account and are now investigating this.

"Based on our investigation, we have determined that our Twitter account was hacked by an external source. We took swift action to secure it, and we apologize this tweet was sent through our corporate McDonald’s account," said Terri Hickey, a spokesperson for McDonald’s.